Barbed fence



'(ModeL) J. W. NADELHOFFER.

BARBED FENCE.

Patented Jan'. 2, 1883.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. NADELHOFFER, OF NAPERVILLE, ILLINOIS.

BARBED FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,098, dated January 2, 188 3.

Application filed April 29,1532. (Model) To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN W. NADELHOFFER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Naperville, in the county of Du Page and State 'of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barbed Fences; and I do declare the following to be a. full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and

ble composed of strands untwisted and crossing at intervals, of a barb having its prongs passed down between the strands on opposite sides of the crossing and bent entirely around one of the strands and brought to the same side of the cable and projected in opposite directions, as will be described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a portion of my fence, and Figs. 2 and 3 show. the barbs detached.

A is the fencewire or cable, composed of the strands to a, not twisted together, but arranged to cross each other at proper intervals, as shown.

In the construction of twisted-wire fences of galvanized iron great difficulty has been experienced by the twisting, cracking the galvanizing, when the wire will rust as readily as though not galvanized. It also requires considerable more wire to form a cable of a given length of two wires twisted together than of two wires un'twisted. It is to avoid the twisting and consequent cracking of the galvanizing and to provide an economical fence that I construct my cable as shown. I secure the strands rigidly together by the barbs, which I will now describe.

b are the barbs, made of a single piece of wire of the proper length and having its ends pointed in the usual manner. The barbs are bent to form the connection or shank b and the barbs proper or prongs, 11 b and are se cured to the cable in the manner hereinafter described.

I will now describe the mode of applying and twisting my barb on the cable, as shown in the lower barb in Fig. 1. At this point the strand (1 crosses above the strand a to the opposite side. I place the shank b over the point of crossing and pass the upper prong, b down between the strands ad and bend it completely around the strand a, and bring it to the same side of the cable with the shank b, and it rests at right angles to shank bdd'wn on top of strand c. The prong b is passed down between the strands a a on opposite side of crossing of strands-from prong b and is bent entirely around strand 0/, and is brought up and bent across top of cable and rested down against top of strand a, parallel with and pro- -jecting in the opposite direction from the prong 11 'By this construction I connect the strands of the cable rigidly together, forming a solid cable without twisting, and one, also, which can more readily be seen by cattle, and also make a secure fastening for the barb.

Galvanized iron is perhaps more damaged and scaled 011' by twisting than other wire; but all wire is more or less injured by twisting, it

cracking the wire open and admitting the atmosphere to the center of the same and exposing a larger surface to rust.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The combination, with the cable A, com- JOHN W. NADELHOF'FER.

Witnesses JASPER L. DILLE, GEORGE STRUBLER.

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